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Pause in speech filled with filler word
A filled pause is a non-silent pause in otherwise fluent speech, where instead of a silent pause there is a filler. The filler can be non-lexical or semiarticulate utterances such as huh, uh, erm, um, or hmm. Fillers may also include words such as well, so, I mean, and like, when used in ways that do not change the meaning of the surrounding speech. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Filled pauseA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The effect of rehearsal on filled pause production in short presentation speechInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Carnet de NotesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The dynamics of interruption and the filled pauseCited 23 times
- Go sideways: Speech disfluencyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Formulaic languageA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech.
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The dynamics of interruption and the filled pause
SPEECH RATE, FILLED PAUSE, AND BODY MOVEMENT IN INTERVIEWS
Filled Pause Refinement Based on the Pronunciation Probability for Lecture Speech
Characteristics of the Filled Pause in Adults Who Stutter
Filled Pause Use in Autistic Adults and Their First-Degree Relatives: Gender Differences and Within-Family Associations
Are types of filled pause discrete classes?
Filled pause patterns in male speech of Blagoveshchensk residents
Aperiodicity analysis of filled pause in the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese database
🆕 Influential since 2022
The effect of rehearsal on filled pause production in short presentation speech
Uh and um production: Persistent filled pause characteristics in English school-age children with a late-talking history
Evidential value of Cantonese filled pause in forensic voice comparison – A comparison between acoustic phonetic and automatic speaker recognition systems
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Carnet de NotesMichael Ginger · 2021
American FilmAmerican Film Institute · 1975
Automate the Boring Stuff with PythonAl Sweigart · 2015
The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010- 📕BeehiveLaura Splan · 1994
The life of ChristÉmile Le Camus, William A. Hickey · 1906
Preschool cluesAngela C. Santomero · 2018
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